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Colorado is one of the top 10 states to start a business, despite being one of the worst for availability of human capital, according to a new report. The report, “2018’s Best & Worst States to Start a Business,” by personal finance website WalletHub, compared the 50 states across 25 key indicators of startup success...

Circling into Denver is a United Kingdom fintech company setting up its second American hub.

The Funding Circle, a so-called “peer-to-peer” lending website that matches lenders with borrowers, leased 19,000 square feet on the 22nd floor at 707 17th St. The company plans to hire more than 200 people here in sales and operations within two years.

Despite national job and wage growth slowing in June, Denver was No. 1 in terms of job growth and No. 3 in the U.S. for wage growth, according to Paychex’s monthly IHS Markit Small Business Employment Watch report. The payroll-services provider for small to midsize businesses reported a 3.6 percent growth for wages in Denver.

Denver has laid out a plan to bring electric scooters back to city sidewalks. Denver Public Works plans to test a one-year pilot permit program for dockless electric scooter companies like Lime and Bird. The companies dropped hundreds of scooters around the city without Denver's approval about a month ago, but pulled them off the streets recently to work out a deal with the city.

Lyft and the American Cancer Society are expanding a partnership that provides free rides to cancer patients to one state and seven cities including Denver. In addition to existing partnerships in Las Vegas and Miami, the program is expanding to the Mile High City as well as Atlanta, Cincinnati, Houston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and St. Louis as well as the state of New Jersey.

Longtime Colorado lender CoBiz Financial Inc. of Denver is being purchased in a deal valued at nearly $1 billion. Tulsa, Oklahoma-based BOK Financial Corp. (Nasdaq: BOKF) said it's buying CoBiz for $977 million, using 75 percent stock and the rest cash to make the purchase. CoBiz has assets of $3.8 billion and has 15 banking locations in Colorado and Arizona. In April, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) named CoBiz its 7(a) Small Lender of the Year.

Regis University will offer a Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity this year, and will develop and share eight cyber degree classes with high schools and community colleges to boost interest in the field.

DENVER -- Expanding its presence in the health-tech sector and the city of Denver, Colorado School of Mines will join Catalyst HTI, a first-of-its-kind health care innovation hub opening this summer...

Secretary of State Wayne Williams participated in a press conference at the Capitol this morning along with Governor John Hickenlooper and Lieutenant Governor Donna Lynne announcing the launch of MyBizColorado, a tool designed to simplify registering a business and obtaining state licenses and registrations.

The MyBizColorado tool creates a single system for new businesses to interact with multiple state agencies responsible for new businesses, including the Secretary of State’s office.

COLORADO SPRINGS -- Catalyst Campus for Technology and Innovation -- an aerospace and defense incubator, accelerator, and research and development center -- announced it will be launching its second...

Entrepreneurs from four startups focused on cybersecurity, blockchain, artificial intelligence and related technologies will spend the next 11 weeks in Colorado Springs as part of an accelerator program designed to turn fledgling companies into thriving businesses.

BOULDER — Boulder AI won the audience choice award for a Shark Tank-style pitch competition it participated in at the 2018 Embedded Vision Summit. Boulder AI, a startup that pitched an AI-embedded camera able to process data, was one of five finalists and one of two winners in the contest.

After a slow start, development in the Commercial Aeronautical Zone surrounding Colorado Springs Airport is poised to take off. There’s particular excitement about the prospect of development at Peak Innovation Park, the 900-acre master-planned business park that occupies the south end of the zone, on both sides of Milton Proby Parkway at the entrance...

NASA has awarded Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation a $113.2 million contract to help build a next-generation space telescope. According to NASA, the Colorado company will design, analyze, develop, fabricate, integrate, test and evaluate the Wide Field Instrument Opto-Mechanical Assembly for the upcoming Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission.